Television Tonga

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Television Tonga
Country Tonga
Ownership
Owner Government of Tonga
(privately operated by Tonga Broadcasting Commission)
Sister channels Television Tonga 2
History
Founded4 July 2000;25 years ago (2000-07-04)
Launched4 July 2000;25 years ago (2000-07-04)
Founder Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV

Television Tonga is a Tongan television channel operated by the Tonga Broadcasting Commission. It was founded on 4 July 2000 by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.

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The TV Tonga studios and broadcast facilities are located in Fasi-moe-afi, near the Tongan capital Nukuʻalofa. They currently broadcast across Tongatapu, 'Eua and other closely surrounding islands, such as Pangaimotu and 'Atata.

TV Tonga produces a weeknightly national TV news program from Monday to Friday in two versions, English and Tongan; and a week-in-review program on Saturday. They also cover local sports and events of national interest.

TV Tonga maintains a website, with an online news service. It launched alongside the channel. [1]

History

TV Tonga/TBC studios & tower at Fasi-moe-afi, Tonga. TBCstudios.JPG
TV Tonga/TBC studios & tower at Fasi-moe-afi, Tonga.

The station was built in 1999 by RFO Polynésie, which held a two-week training session in August accompanied by journalists from RFO's Pacific branches in New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia. [2]

While TV Tonga is working in affiliation with overseas broadcasters and becoming more of a relaying station, in 2008 it launched a second channel, Television Tonga 2, for its domestic service. General Manager 'Elenoa 'Amanaki has stated that the second English program channel would leave the original channel, formerly broadcasting 60% in English, 40% in Tongan, for Tongan language programs only. [3]

There was a special service in Vavaʻu, which as of 2011 received files from Tongatapu via an undersea cable. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "New Zealand DX Times" (PDF). World Radio History. June 2000. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2025. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  2. ↑ TV Polynésie helps Tonga set up television, Pacific Islands Monthly, September 1999
  3. ↑ Tongan television viewers' bonanza, Matangi Tonga, 15 December 2005, retrieved 2009-06-21[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ Roadmap for the Transition from Analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television in the Kingdom of Tonga
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